Lev Raphael: Author Appearances

Memoir

"Lev Raphael is a leading figure in American Jewish Literature."
—Deborah Dash Moore, Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

"Lev Raphael writes with the precision of a neurosurgeon, the warmth of an ancient storyteller, and the soul of a people that has known the extremes of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, love and hate more than almost any other."
—The Jewish Bulletin, San Francisco

My Germany (University
of Wisconsin Press, April 2009)

"Part travelogue and part detective story, My Germany is a wholly enthralling, beautifully written story of healing and forgiveness, in which Raphael not only sheds his hatred and fear of Germany but comes to a deeper, richer understanding of his parents and Jewish heritage—and, above all, of himself."
—Lynne Olson
Author of Troublesome Young Men

"Lev Raphael has written essays about what it means to be Jewish and gay that put an equally heartfelt and astute emphasis on each element. These essays are as personal as confession and as reasoned as philosophy."
—Edmund White